After cooking for celebrities in LA, opening her own restaurant in Uruguay, and working with Philippe Starck on the Yoo Tower, Alejandra, chef Emmanuel Romano and her architect father created Container Design Loft in the small fishermen's town of Jose Ignacio.

Argentine nouvelle cuisine chef and experienced entrepreneur Alejandra Dellepiane told Inhabitat how she moved to Los Angeles at the young age of 18 years old. After working for several high-end restaurants she started cooking privately for celebrities including Steven Spielberg, Blake Edwards, Julie Andrews, Danni de Vito, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Barbara Streisand.

After becoming pregnant with her first son, she decided to go back to South America, relocating with her family in bustling Punta del Este, a town famous for its pricy seaside homes, high-rise buildings, casinos, yacht harbor and amazing restaurants. Punta del Este is the perfect playground and meeting point for the international jet set — and for Alejandra’s energetic business ideas. Drawing on her wide experience with cooking for the rich and famous, Alejandra opened a very successful restaurant that quickly stood out from the crowd, offering innovative cuisine cooked with aromatic herbs — including fresh lemon basil, cinnamon and thyme she grew herself.

The restaurant quickly grew, and instead of managing her own business Alejandra decided to create the restaurant concept for star designer Philippe Stark’s luxurious Yoo Tower, which opened in Punta del Este two years ago.

After that incredible experience, she moved to the next town, the isolated fishermen town Jose Ignacio, and together with another chef, Emmanuel Romano and her architect father, created Container Design Loft, her latest project.

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2 Comments

jparkesSeptember 21, 2011 at 6:06 pm

I don’t think it’s a blight, it has more style, is better built, and will outlast the homes most of America lives in.
It is green as those containers were ready made and taken from a junk pile and cost nothing to reuse, nor were any forests cleared for the lumber it would have taken. It’s also green in that it’s smaller than most American homes, thus more efficient to heat and cool.
I would be proud to own such as she built. I would imagine that container home will outlast most of what nature could throw at it as well.
Do not judge a persons home home, it makes you expose your own idiocy and poor judgement.

caemanMay 25, 2011 at 8:58 am

That poor beach. How is this green? Or responsible? She placed a blight into unspoiled land and should be lambasted for it.